A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order on July 11, 2025, prohibiting LAPD from using less-lethal munitions, rubber bullets, and chemical agents against clearly identified journalists covering protests in Los Angeles. The order also bars police from forcibly removing journalists from …
Law enforcement shot over 20 journalists with rubber bullets and pepper balls during June 6-9 immigration protests in Los Angeles amid 2,000 National Guard deployment. Nick Stern required emergency surgery from plastic bullet; Lauren Tomasi shot on live TV; Toby Canham struck in forehead. Reporters …
Dataminr began providing the Los Angeles Police Department with real-time surveillance alerts about Gaza war protests just two days after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, demonstrating the company’s ongoing role in monitoring constitutionally protected political speech despite …
The FBI signed an expedited agreement to extend its relationship with Dataminr on June 9, 2020, just days after nationwide demonstrations erupted following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The expanded contract provided FBI agents with enhanced access to Dataminr’s …
Multiple academic studies and internal police audits published in 2019 provide comprehensive evidence of PredPol’s racial bias and failure to demonstrate effectiveness, undermining the fundamental claims that have justified the technology’s widespread adoption.
An internal audit by the …
The Los Angeles Police Department launches Operation LASER (Los Angeles Strategic Extraction and Restoration), a controversial predictive policing program that runs from 2011 to 2019. The program is designed to identify and target individuals deemed at high risk of committing violent crimes using a …
Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace, Bad Boy Records’ biggest star, is murdered in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, six months after Tupac Shakur’s similar death. The murder, which remains officially unsolved, occurs at the height of the East Coast-West Coast hip-hop …